When we met for this episode, the plans were vague. I knew that we should make a podcast, if only because I laugh so hard when I am with these friends, and no one else seems able to keep up with our humor like this group can.

Cameron was in the midst of buying a house, so he had not looked at the group text for a few weeks, which meant that he had no idea what we were planning. So I told him to play dumb as the producer who keeps me relevant, and therefore holds some amount of power over the content covered in the podcast, and we suggested that he do a fake ad that undermines whatever I am saying.

I had several pages of clinical notes that I had used for an oral presentation about rhabdomyolysis, and I assumed that I could just reference that if I ran into trouble with the medical lesson. Aside from that, I just typed up a very basic intro of a few sentences and confirmed that Cassie had something for us (which she did not share in advance). The rest was improvised. If you listen for it, you can also hear us mispronounce the name of the podcast, because we had only figured out the name a few minutes before we started recording.

The episode begins with Dr. London Smith (.com) introducing the Jock Doc Podcast, then beginning to talk about the medical topic. Within the first five minutes, the fake advertisement for Muber begins, in which Cameron instructs the listener to use this “medical uber” to get to the hospital rather than calling 911. During this time, Dr. London has also begun telling the story of a patient encounter at the ER fisting himself before trying to steal an ambulance, and Cameron interrupts to clarify what Dr. London means. After significant stuttering, Dr. London asks what word was giving Cameron trouble, and his reply was “ambulance”. So Dr. London begins explaining the concept and use of an ambulance.

At this point, the listener becomes acutely aware of the fact that Cameron is not an ideal representative of the average listener, either in terms of intelligence or reason.

The conversation continues until Cassie Walker’s character joins the dialogue. She introduces herself as Sage Daniels, with a monologue about something “spiritually birthing” inside of her that would make the average listener cringe. She goes on to share about her pyramid scheme of Spiritual Oils, which she describes as being made of raisin oil. On further elaboration, this “raisin oil” simply sounds like wine. She goes on to share tidbits like how she had just given birth three days beforehand and is also using her deceased husband to attempt to market to the afterlife. At one point, Cameron and Dr. London both imbibe some of the Spiritual Oils and have a shared hallucination of “911”, which was a callback to earlier in the episode when Cameron tries to have Dr. London come up with a mnemonic to help people remember those three numbers. They also read listener question which turns out to simply be a junk email that Cameron insists that Dr. London answer in a medically informed fashion. Following these, the episode ends.

After this episode was recorded, we listened back while cooking dinner. During the recording, we all thought we were terrible. After we listened back, however, I was absolutely convinced that we needed to take this seriously and actually try hard. We were better than most of my favorite podcasts! My only reservation was that I felt less funny as the host, but I would later read interviews with Scott Aukerman who suffers the same fate, and I have since learned to embrace whatever opportunity I have to set others up to make jokes.